CHELMSFORD, MA--(Marketwire - March 3, 2009) - Aspect, a unified communications (UC) solutions
provider, today announced the successful rollout of Microsoft® Office Communications Server 2007 R2 at the company
headquarters in Chelmsford, Mass. Aspect® Professional Services worked
closely with the company's IT organization to complete the deployment on
18 February 2009 and the company is continuing its global deployment
throughout offices in the Americas, Europe and the Asia Pacific (APAC)
regions over the coming months. The implementation was accelerated through
UC RapidStart, a packaged UC Services
offering from Aspect that helps companies gain hands on experience with a
pilot deployment of Microsoft® Office Communications Server 2007 (OCS).

The company's headquarters, with more than 300 employees, is the first
Aspect site to have completely migrated to Office Communications Server
2007 R2 for all voice and voicemail services, audio and Web conferencing,
instant messaging (IM) and presence, making the Chelmsford office the
company's first phone-free location. Aspect has also retired its Chelmsford
PBX for all employee peer-to-peer and corporate calling services.

"This journey to 'go-live' is really a significant milestone in Aspect's
company-wide unified communications strategy," said Jamie Ryan, senior vice
president, Information Technology and chief information officer, Aspect.
"This effort was successful because of the joint efforts of Aspect Professional Services and IT throughout the deployment.
Aspect Professional Services can now bring the same skills and experience
to our customers around the globe to help customers develop a UC strategy
and deploy it effectively.

"The best part is the cost benefits we'll be able to see as a result of the
implementation, including saving $75,000 per month on conference calling in
the first year alone," Ryan added. "Furthermore, both local and long
distance costs will drop significantly as a result of our use of session
initiation protocol (SIP) Trunking and will result in additional savings of
hundreds of thousands of dollars as we complete our deployment. With these
types of savings, our ROI will be extremely aggressive."

Aspect continues its global rollout of Office Communications Server 2007 R2
to more than 1,800 employees. The company's deployment across North
America and Europe will be completed by June, with APAC following in the
second half of 2009.

"Through this implementation, Aspect has applied our understanding of
global mission critical voice deployments, in addition to our expertise as
one of the first Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Voice
specialization partners," said Kevin Schwartz, executive vice president of
Global Professional Services, Aspect. "To the company's knowledge, the
Aspect implementation will be one of the largest Microsoft Office
Communications 2007 R2 rollouts globally, and this implementation further
validates our expertise as an enterprise-class UC services provider."

About UC RapidStart

UC RapidStart from Aspect helps organizations jumpstart their UC journey
with a pilot deployment of Microsoft® Office Communications Server 2007
(OCS) and Microsoft® Office Communicator 2007 to a small number of users,
combined with introductory workshops on business and IT strategy to help
organizations move forward into subsequent detailed planning, architecture,
and design activities.

About Aspect

Aspect provides software and consulting services that turn the potential of
Microsoft unified communications into
real business results across the enterprise and in the contact center.
Applying 35 years of insight and experience, Aspect helps more than
two-thirds of the FORTUNE Global 100, as well as small and medium
enterprises, power their business processes with communications. For more
information, visit www.aspect.com.

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